Zoom Video Communications Inc, on Monday, lowered its annual revenue forecast, as the video-conferencing platform expects a hit from declining online business.
Zoom Chief Financial Officer, Kelly Steckelberg, said during a post-earnings call that the company’s online business would decline nearly eight per cent during the year.
After recording blistering growth during the pandemic, Zoom, which competes with WeChat Work, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx and Slack, is facing a slowdown as red-hot inflation is dampening the spending power of customers.
Shares of the San Jose, California-based company, which fell nearly 56 per cent this year, were down five per cent in trading after the bell.
Zoom now expects annual revenue to be between $4.37 billion and $4.38 billion, compared with an earlier outlook of $4.39 billion and $4.40 billion.
“Guidance suggests further weakness in both enterprise and online. It is tough to disaggregate how much of this is macro (especially given slowing down in hiring or layoffs in tech) and how much is competition,” said RBC analyst Rishi Jaluria.
“The focus for Zoom remains on its ability to expand to become a larger platform,” he added.
The company, however, raised its annual adjusted profit per share to between $3.91 and $3.94, compared with the $3.66 to $3.69 forecast earlier.
Revenue for the third quarter that ended Oct. 31 rose five per cent to $1.1 billion, on the back of a 20 per cent increase from high-paying enterprise customers, the company said.
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